Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1919
- Died
- 2006
- Works
- 4
Top works
- Fernando Solanas ou la rage de transformer le monde
- La bataille d'Alger
- GIOVANNA
- Il sole sorge ancora
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Film & TV
Directing · Pisa, Italy
Gillo Pontecorvo, born November 19, 1919 in Pisa and died October 12, 2006 in Rome, is an Italian filmmaker. Of Italian Jewish origin, Gillou Pontecorvo is the brother of Bruno Pontecorvo, a nuclear physicist working for the USSR, and Guido Pontecorvo, an Italian-British geneticist, as well as the grandson of the Jewish industrialist Pellegrino Pontecorvo. He has three sons: Marco…
Known for
- La Bataille d'Alger, l'empreinte — Self (archive footage)2018
- Franco Cristaldi e il suo cinema Paradiso2009
- Gillo of Ladies and Knights, of Loves and Arms — Self2007
- Elio Petri: Notes About a Filmmaker — Self2005
- Marxist Poetry: The Making of The Battle of Algiers — Self2004
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1919 births2006 deaths20th-century Italian Jews20th-century Italian politiciansBurials at Campo VeranoDavid di Donatello winnersDirectors of Golden Lion winnersExiled Italian politiciansInternational Brigades personnelItalian Communist Party politiciansItalian film directorsItalian film score composers